Before I left, I did a whirlwind tour of Bulgaria, managing to stop in three cities - Veliko Tarnovo, Plovdiv, and Sofia. It's been a really fun time - Bulgaria is tough because of their crazy Cyrillic alphabet, but if someone is looking for a fun trip to take, Romania and Bulgaria are beautiful and interesting.
Veliko Tarnovo was the medieval capital of Bulgaria and has the ruins of a huge fortress, which we visited in a blizzard:
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The place is really gigantic - crazy to imagine what it must have been like when it was fully built up.
They have a church there with amazing paintings inside. You have to pay extra to take pictures inside, so instead here is a detail of one of the doors:
Moving on to Plovdiv... there is a large Roman amphitheater in the middle of town - a road runs underneath it.
Kitty at the theater wonders if maybe his tickets were for another night:
Beautiful painted plate:
Painting inside the archway of a mosque:
I was touring Plovdiv with Australians. Lesson: Aussies do not like cold. They got cranky and marched off to find a coffee shop:
I don't think my hiding will be very successful if the internet can find me:
Kitties everywhere!!
The houses in the old section of Plovdiv are gorgeously painted:
Confidential to Mahaba: I met your Bulgarian cousin. He's a nice dude. He said to pass on this message: "meow mew mrow mrow mew purrrrr."
Aww that kitty is so cute in the snow waiting for the theater to commence! And don't you think that second one looks little tiny bit like Ella? :)
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well...that was Mahaba's response to her cuz...I'm sure he'll be able to interpret it.
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